2nd International Workshop on Testing The Cloud

CALL FOR PAPERS

About

Cloud computing is everywhere, inevitable: originally a layered
abstraction of an heterogeneous environment, it has become the
paradigm of a large-scale data-oriented system. And while it has some
interesting features (easy deployment of applications, resiliency,
security, performance, scalability, elasticity, etc.), testing its
robustness and its reliability is a major challenge. The Cloud is an
intricate collection of interconnected and virtualised computers,
connected services, complex service-level agreements. From a testing
perspective, the Cloud is then a complex composition of complex
systems, and one can wonder whether anything like a global testing is
possible? But if the answer is no, what can we conclude from partial
tests? The question of testing this large, network-based, dynamic,
composition of computers, virtual machines, servers, services, SLAs,
seems particularly difficult. And critical for Cloud vendors:
customers’ trust is indeed crucial for companies implementing Clouds,
and they have to ensure that the system has all the security and
performance characteristics the marketing department highlights. This
problem is a perfect example of cross concerns between academia and
product companies, and it covers a broad range of topics, from
software development to code analysis, performance monitoring to
formal model for system testing, and so on.

In TTC, we aim at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in this difficult question of testing the cloud, ie. a complex distributed, dynamic and interconnected system. Hence, we call for regular scientific submissions, but also for industrial experience feedback. We are interested in contributions related to 'testing the Cloud' (i.e., testing the Cloud itself, for instance, its infrastructure), 'testing in the Cloud' (i.e., testing applications that are deployed in the Cloud), and 'testing with the Cloud' (e.g., using the Cloud capabilities to perform stress testing on an application). All the submissions describing approaches used in the industry, defining new methods to facilitate testing or identifying new challenges are relevant.

Topics of Interest

"Testing the Cloud" covers many different topics, much more than the
list we wrapped up below. So we welcome academic and industrial
contributions that sound relevant - whatever is the background of the
authors. In particular, we will run regular academic sessions, but we
are also likely to have a more industry-focused session where it will
be possible to describe solutions deployed in product companies or
best practices followed by practitioners.

Domain-specific languages for testing

Fault injection

Formal specification and verification of programming libraries and programs

Functional and structural testing

New tools for testing

Performance testing

Programming techniques and methodologies (that decrease the need for testing)